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    It is not the case that If personal identity reduces to psychological continuity without a further fact (Parfit, 'Reasons and Persons' §15), then 'making oneself into an agent' names no determinate process over and above the occurrence of rational episodes.

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    • 1.Psychological continuity describes *what* persists; agential self-making explains *how* one becomes responsible for that persistence.
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    • 2.Rational episodes occur within a self; they presuppose rather than constitute the agent who integrates them into a unified project.
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    • 3.The normative force of commitment and self-governance requires a determinate agent-process that goes beyond mere psychological succession.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity is constitutively what makes rational episodes cohere into a unified perspective over time.
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    • 2.Agency requires nothing metaphysically over and above the causal influence of rational deliberation on subsequent action.
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    • 3.Positing a 'self-making' process distinct from rational episodes commits us to an unnecessary entity beyond psychological facts.
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